U.S. Strategy of Preventing Conflicts in South Asia

Abstract

Crisis preventive diplomacy is an enduring idea in international politics referring to the crisis preventing efforts by an organization, or a nation or a group of nations to avert the escalation of a conflict between other nations. Crisis preventive diplomacy evolves and refers specifically to diplomatic action taken at the earliest possible stage likely, to obviate dispute from up surging between parties, to thwart existing clash from escalating in to a conflict and to limit the spread of the latter when it occurs. The preventive diplomacy lingers highly relevant along the entire conflict spectrum. It is presumed that the third party involvement in a conflict can be effective, and if it is not applied, conflict can expand and be more hazardous.1 The United States being the most effective global power has the means and capacity to play a third party role in a conflicting situation, to limit the crisis from taking dangerous proportions. In the case of South Asia, the United States used crisis preventive diplomacy successfully in tense situations emerged from time to time between Pakistan and India. Otherwise the two states could be dragged to a full-fledged war that could employ nuclear weapons.